Audacious Audio Player for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Install Audacious 3.7.1 Audio Player on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. Audacious is one of the most popular open source audio player for Linux Systems.
The description page says, Audacious is a descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.
Audacious 3.7.1 is the latest version of the Audacious audio player. Audacious 3.7.1 has been released with the following changes:
- The Qt queue manager view is often not synchronized with the actually queued tracks. This includes adding and removing entries
- LyricWiki generates strange edit link if song has no lyrics on lyrics.wikia.com
- Since 3.7, when clicking double size in winamp skin, the size of the player becomes more than double size and takes up about 1/6th of the screen
- Checkbox to turn off equalizer and all effects in Filewriter
- Scanning HTTP playlist entries delays playback of local files
- Software crashes when ID3 tag contains 1048576 characters or more
- Playing this stream seg-faults immediately when playing http://s4.viastreaming.net:9040/
- Audacious crashes when attempting to display mouse-hover overlay for FLAC files
- Audacious starts up with visible artifacts
Install Audacious 3.7.1 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Audacious 3.7.1 on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install audacious
Once installed, open and launch the Audacious music player from Ubuntu Dash or Menu. When opened, the Audacious music player automatically detects the audio (music) files stored on the system.
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Audacious 3.7.1 from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove audacious